A good username

Midnight Crossroads

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A good username is one that is unique, easy to remember, and something you can bare to look at for potentially years. You may forget about it, but the internet never really does.

My username is a reference to a legend about a blues singer that sold his soul to the devil.
 

Ironic Pirate

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FargoDog said:
Mine is FargoDog, because my nickname (pretty much proper name by now) is Fargo, and I made it up years ago because my dog was at my feet when I was typing up a username.

Also, does anyone know if you can change your username? I want to see if I can change it to just 'Fargo'..
Go to your profile, then update account information, then you can change it. [HEADING=1]BUT ONLY ONCE![/HEADING]

Mine was initially the name of my computer, but that made self googling hard, so I came up with four others and had a poll to see which one I should take. Guess which won!
 

Lambi

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FargoDog said:
Asturiel said:
FargoDog said:
Mine is FargoDog, because my nickname (pretty much proper name by now) is Fargo, and I made it up years ago because my dog was at my feet when I was typing up a nickname.

Also, does anyone know if you can change your username? I want to see if I can change it to just 'Fargo'..
Go to "Update Account Information" in your profile and you can change it there.

But you can only do it once. Keep that in mind.
Narp. Says at the top for me You cannot change your username!. Ah well, I guess I'll stick.

Thanks though :)
Have you changed it before? Because if you haven't, I'd ask a mod if I were you.

OT: My username is a nickname I once had because of my curly hair. It stuck with me and is like a second me.
 

Cazza

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A good username should look right and feel right to the user. My username is my nickname that was given to me 7ish years ago by my friends. Everyone calls me cazza, I had known some people for years(2-3) and they were embarrassed to ask what my name was because they had known me for so long. My user/nickname defines a major part of who I'm.
 

chromewarriorXIII

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I don't really know how I came up with mine. But it is distinctly me (except on Steam, because someone stole it). If you Google it, you're going to come up with all me.
 

Daipire

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My latest: Grinspwn.

A combination of Grinspoon, an awesome band and kicking ass in video games.
 

Terminate421

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I got mine from when I first joined runescape (which I don't play anymore), ever since then, its been my online alias, except for one site....Some guy is using it on Toon Zone
 

Fraught

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What makes a good username? One that you could "wear" proudly on a variety of different sites. Well, it should be memorable, short, concise. I hate numbers in a username, so just throw those out of the window immediately when thinking of a username. Also, one good way to memorability is using some phrases widely-known by many people, from movies, or books, or games. Names of some items or characters etc.


Also, how did you come up with your current one? Did it take a lot of thought to come up with, or did you just pick something randomly? You really want to know how I came up with it? Well, I had old usernames, but they all seemed kind of...I don't know, mildly immature and weird, and stuff. I relied more on symbols and different things to make it look cooler, instead of something, y'know, uhh...short and memorable, and clever, and stuff. But even though I've more recently just started clutching and smashing together two words that make up some queer word, the username "Fraught" I got by just going onto a Estonian-English dictionary, thinking of some cool word in my own language, and then I decided to keep doing it until I'd stumble upon a word that came up that I'd like.

And so I did.

So to answer your second question, no, I guess not. The word that netted me the username "Fraught" was the first word I searched for on the dictionary. And yeah, I guess you could say it was pretty random.